Genesis 49:4 · JPS 1917

Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch.

Who acts: thou, Reuben · What happens: go up, defile · To what, where: bed

This is Genesis 49:4 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Reuben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unstable	unstable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	advcl
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 water	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unstable	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unstable	punct
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 have	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 excellency	det
9	excellency	excellency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wentest	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 wentest	mark
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 wentest	nsubj
13	wentest	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	advcl
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 wentest	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 bed	case
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bed	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wentest	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 defiledst	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 defiledst	advmod
22	defiledst	defile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 defiledst	nsubj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 defiledst	obj
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 couch	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 couch	nmod:poss
31	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	thou			to thy father's bed	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	defile	past	thou	bed	then		tree rules
3	go up	past	Reuben			to my couch	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

פַּ֤חַז כַּמַּ֙יִם֙ אַל־תּוֹתַ֔ר כִּ֥י עָלִ֖יתָ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ אָ֥ז חִלַּ֖לְתָּ יְצוּעִ֥י עָלָֽה׃פ

Genesis 49:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1602 of Mova's parse database.

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